By inviting himself into the campaign for the Parisian municipal elections of 2026, Yannick Jadot intends to “shake up the game on the left”. An “another path”, as advocated by the environmentalist senator from Paris, which now opens the prospect of a primary bringing together all the components of the left to nominate a single candidate. This option, which is still only a hypothesis at this stage, would be a first since 1977 and the first election of a mayor of Paris. “It would be completely new and damn interesting,” says one observer.
Fifty years after the election of a certain Jacques Chirac, the Parisian left has never managed to launch united in the first round of municipal elections. Since Brice Lalonde and his candidacy for Paris Écologie in 1977, the greens of the capital have always gone it alone in the first round, before joining the left bloc in the second. Let us think of Yves Contassot in 2001, Denis Baupin in 2008, Christophe Najdovski in 2014 or David Belliard in 2020.
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